{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21286106","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21286106","state":"North Carolina","county":"Guilford","location_type":"County","file_month":8,"file_year":1861,"filing_court":"Common Pleas","end_month":8,"end_year":1861,"ending_court":"Common Pleas","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Twenty-eight-year-old free black Jenetta Wright makes a \"public declaration\" to become the slave of John Clark.  She is making her request \"without any fear or compulsion from any one.\"  The court grants Jenetta's request and declares her John Clark's slave.","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"}]}]}